Sharyn McCrumb, Author Scribner Book Company $21 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-19556-8
In 1779, Katie Wyler, 18, was captured by the Shawnee in North Carolina. The story of her escape and arduous journey home through hundreds of miles of Appalachian wilderness is the topic of ethno-historian Jeremy Cobb's thesis-and the thread which...
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Sharyn McCrumb. Atria, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4767-7281-3
A prophetic mountain game rooted in age-old superstitions about how to find a husband sets the stage for McCrumb’s (The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter) ponderous morality tale, the latest in the Ballad series. Ellie and Albert are unassuming mountain...
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Sharyn McCrumb. St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-55817-8
In her latest "Ballad Novel," McCrumb (The Devil Amongst the Lawyers) delves into the history of the song made popular by the Kingston Trio. It's 1866 and no one in the mountains of North Carolina has been left unscarred by the Civil War. This...
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Sharyn McCrumb, Author Dutton Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-94011-1
Two missing children, unscrupulous land grabbing (past and present), a shooting, a manhunt and visits from both an angel and a ghost are rendered with little suspense or mystery in McCrumb's fourth ballad novel, following the bestselling She Walks...
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Sharyn McCrumb, Author Signet Book $7.99 (447p) ISBN 978-0-451-18472-6
A murdered 18th-century pioneer woman and a present-day escaped convict haunt the same Appalachian wilderness in McCrumb's multilayered mystery. (Oct.)
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Sharyn McCrumb, Author Ballantine Books $17 (260p) ISBN 978-0-345-36576-7
Although billed as an Elizabeth MacPherson mystery, there is too little mystery and too little McPherson in this convoluted tale, which will please Civil War buffs more than mystery fans. Elizabeth's brother, Bill, a new lawyer, sets up shop in...
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Sharyn McCrumb, Author Ballantine Books $16.95 (281p) ISBN 978-0-345-36583-5
In her latest outing (after Paying the Piper ) amateur sleuth and student of forensic science Elizabeth MacPherson ties the knot with her reserved Scottish fiance, Cameron Dawson. Although the irrepressible Georgia resident and her beau had...
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Sharyn McCrumb, Author Scribner Book Company $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19104-1
McCrumb surpasses lauded earlier novels, including 1988 Edgar winner Bimbos of the Death Sun , with this inventive mystery. Sheriff Spencer Arrowood remembers Peggy Muryan, a newcomer to Hamelin, Tenn., as a moderately popular folksinger of the...
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Sharyn McCrumb, Author Scribner Book Company $19 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19407-3
Revisiting some of the characters from If Ever I Return, Pretty Peggy-O, Edgar Award winner McCrumb weaves Appalachian folklore and death, in natural and unnatural forms, into a story that meanders like a mountain stream through the hills of east...
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Sharyn McCrumb, Author Ballantine Books $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-38231-3
This mild-mannered mystery, number nine in the Elizabeth MacPherson series from versatile writer McCrumb (Bimboes of the Death Sun; If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him), is a humorous, fast-paced story. When we join MacPherson, she has just checked...
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Sharyn McCrumb, Author Ballantine Books $22.5 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-41493-9
""I grew up seeing the world as an exciting place,"" writes popular mystery writer McCrumb (If I'd Killed Him When I Met Him) in the introduction to her first short story collection. ""The quiet tales of suburban angst so popular in modern fiction...
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Sharyn McCrumb, Author Ballantine Books $20 (277p) ISBN 978-0-345-38229-0
Three grievously wronged women take murderous revenge in this sharp-edged, witty tale, the eighth appearance of forensic anthropologist Elizabeth MacPherson. Her skills at research and detection come into play when she is hired as an investigator by
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Sharyn McCrumb, Author Fawcett Books $7.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-345-37914-6
Continuing the delightful adventures begun in Bimbos of the Death Sun , engineering professor and famed science fiction author Jay Omega and his significant other, Marion Farley, a professor of SF, investigate the murder of another science fiction...
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Sharyn McCrumb, Author Ballantine Books $6.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-345-36427-2
In her fifth outing, forensic science student Elizabeth MacPherson investigates a mysterious urn of cremated ashes as she makes plans for her wedding. ``Elizabeth is less centrally involved in the crime and detection than usual, but this doesn't...
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Sharyn McCrumb, Author St. Martin’s 24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-55816-1
In 1935, the case of an Appalachian schoolteacher arrested for murdering her father becomes a national news story, seized on by the press for its sensationalism and the opportunity to mock the rural inhabitants involved. Competing with a brigade of...
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Sharyn McCrumb, Author . Kensington $25 (309p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0778-4
B
estseller McCrumb (St. Dale
; Ghost Riders
) returns to the world of NASCAR in this middling tale of modern celebrity. Badger Jenkins, a shy, good old boy from Marengo, Ga., whose days of racing stardom have come and gone, is recruited by a...
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Sharyn McCrumb, Author . Kensington $25 (311p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0776-0
A group of stock car racing fans embarks on a bus tour of Southern speedways—seven states in eight days—as a tribute to legendary NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt in this meandering road novel modeled after the Canterbury Tales
. Harley...
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Sharyn McCrumb, Author . Dutton $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-525-94718-9
Bestselling North Carolina writer McCrumb (The Songcatcher, etc.) returns with another epic ballad of a novel, a multi-tiered Civil War story that links past and present with an otherworldly twist. Tough, resilient Malinda Blalock is dismayed when...
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Sharyn McCrumb, Author, Brian Tart, Editor . Dutton $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-94488-1
Skipping back and forth in time from the 18th to the late 20th century, and drawing on her own family history, McCrumb tells two stories in her appealing new novel, one heading toward, the other returning to, the Appalachians. In the present-day...
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Jeffery Deaver, Author, Sharyn McCrumb, Author, Ed McBain, Editor MacMillan Audio $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59397-682-8
The late McBain had a great idea when he got together 10 top crime writers to produce new novellas for a fat anthology called Transgressions, and the folks at Audio Renaissance have been equally smart at choosing some of the book's best stories for...
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Gregory Frost, Author, Pat Cadigan, Author, Sharyn McCrumb, Author . Solaris $15 (351p) ISBN 978-1-84416-595-7
This anthology's title notwithstanding, the 19 original stories commissioned for it seem largely devoid of the Poe principle. Kim Newman (“Illimitable Domain”) contributes a gleefully subversive alternate history in which Poe movie...
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